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Six Months Ago...

  REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT (that's - "Bill Clinton" - in case you forgot)
  ON KEEPING AMERICA (a mythical land) SECURE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 

 National Academy of Sciences 
 Washington, D.C. 
 January 22, 1999 

10:30 A.M. EST 

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. 

--snip--

Since 1993, we have tripled funding for FBI anti-terrorist efforts. 
Our agents and prosecutors, with excellent support from our 
intelligence agencies, have done extraordinary work in tracking 
down perpetrators of terrorist acts and bringing them to justice. 
And as our air strikes against Afghanistan -- or against the terrorist 
camps in Afghanistan -- last summer showed, we are prepared to 
use military force against terrorists who harm our citizens. But all 
of you know the fight against terrorism is far from over. And now, 
terrorists seek new tools of destruction. 

Last May, at the Naval Academy commencement, I said terrorist 
and outlaw states are extending the world's fields of battle, from 
physical space to cyberspace, from our earth's vast bodies of water 
to the complex workings of our own human bodies. 

--snip--

....[W]e already are seeing the first wave of deliberate cyber attacks -- 
hackers break into government and business computers, stealing and 
destroying information, raiding bank accounts, running up credit card
charges, extorting money by threats to unleash computer viruses. 

--snip--

Today, I want to announce the new initiatives we will take, to take us 
to the next level in preparing for these emerging threats. In my budget, 
I will ask Congress for $10 billion to address terrorism and terrorist-
emerging tools. This will include nearly $1.4 billion to protect citizens 
against chemical and biological terror -- more than double what we spent 
on such programs only two years ago. 

The budget proposal will also include $1.46 billion to protect critical 
systems from cyber and other attacks. That's 40 percent more than we 
were spending two years ago. Among other things, it will help to fund 
four new initiatives: 

  First, an intensive research effort to detect intruders trying to break into 
  critical computer systems.

  Second, crime -- excuse me detection networks, first for our Defense 
  Department, and later for other key agencies so when one critical computer 
  system is invaded, others will be alerted instantly. And we will urge the
  private sector to create similar structures. 

  Third, the creation of information centers in the private sector so that our 
  industries can work together and with government to address cyber threats. 

  Finally, we'll ask for funding to bolster the government's ranks of highly
  skilled computer experts -- people capable of preventing and responding to 
  computer crises. 

To implement this proposal, the Cyber Corps program, we will encourage 
federal agencies to train and retrain computer specialists, as well as recruiting 
gifted young people out of college. 

In all our battles, we will be aggressive. At the same time I want you to know 
that we will remain committed to uphold privacy rights and other constitutional 
protections, as well as the proprietary rights of American businesses. It is 
essential that we do not undermine liberty in the name of liberty. We can prevail 
over terrorism by drawing on the very best in our free society -- the skill and 
courage of our troops,  the genius of our scientists and engineers, the strength 
of our factory workers, the determination and talents of our public servants, 
the vision of leaders in every vital sector. 

I have tried as hard as I can to create the right frame of mind in America 
for dealing with this. For too long the problem has been that not enough has 
been done to recognize the threat and deal with it. And we in government, 
frankly, weren't as well organized as we should have been for too long. I do 
not want the pendulum to swing the other way now, and for people to believe 
that every incident they read about in a novel or every incident they see in 
a thrilling movie is about to happen to them within the next 24 hours. 

What we are seeing here, as any military person in the audience can tell you, 
is nothing more than a repetition of weapons systems that goes back to the 
beginning of time. An offensive weapons system is developed, and it takes 
time to develop the defense. And then another offensive weapon is developed 
that overcomes that defense, and then another defense is built up -- as surely 
as castles and moats held off people with spears and bows and arrows and riding 
horses, and the catapult was developed to overcome the castle and the moat. 

But because of the speed with which change is occurring in our society -- in 
computing technology, and particularly in the biological sciences -- we have 
got to do everything we can to make sure that we close the gap between offense 
and defense to nothing, if possible. That is the challenge here. 

We are doing everything we can, in ways that I can and in ways that cannot 
discuss, to try to stop people who would misuse chemical and biological capacity 
from getting that capacity. This is not a cause for panic -- it is a cause for 
serious, deliberate, disciplined, long-term concern. And I am absolutely 
convinced that if we maintain our clear purpose and our strength of will, we 
will prevail here. And thanks to so many of you in this audience, and your 
colleagues throughout the United States, and like-minded people throughout 
the world, we have better than a good chance of success. But we must be 
deliberate, and we must be aggressive. 

Thank you very much. (Applause.) 

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